"Thomas Pynchon said, grandly"

[Mark Kohut]

Tore:
   
  Very interesting and yes quite surprising that there was a picture of pynchon as the cover.
  It looks real but there is a tradition within publishers to put a kind of placeholder picture
  of the author as the cover in catalogues if the final cover had not yet been designed. 
   
  Catalogues are 6-8 months ahead of pub date and many covers change or are finalized late.
   
  I cannot imagine TRP would allow GR to be published this way. 
   
  And Everyman editions do not usually have the author's photo even if the author's visage
  is well-known (therefore would help a potential buyer decide on it).
   
  Mark

Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
  I just wrote:

>My personal (and completely unsubstantiated) theory is that the Everyman's 
>Library edition of GR (which was announced back in the mid-90s but never 
>appeared) was abandoned because the editors were adamant that the edition 
>should have an introduction (like all other Everyman's Library-editions), 
>and Pynchon was adamant that it shouldn't....

- but then I did a little digging and came up with this very interesting 
page, which brutally disproves my theory, but which also contains some - for 
me at least - new information:

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/grintro.html

This is the first time I've seen the cover of that abandoned version, and 
I'm very surprised that it actually had a photo of Pynchon on the cover.

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